Tokat (electoral district)

Tokat is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects 5 members of parliament (deputies) to represent the province of the same name for a four-year term by the D'Hondt method, a party-list proportional representation system.

Tokat
electoral district
for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
Tokat highlighted in red on a beige political map of Turkeym
Tokat shown within Turkey
ProvinceTokat
Electorate417,086
Current electoral district
Created1920
Seats5
Historical
  • 7 (2002-2011)
    6 (1999-2002)
    7 (1995-1999)
    6 (1983-1995)
    7 (1961-1983)
    10 (1957-1961)
    9 (1954-1957)
MPs
List
  • Zeyid Aslan AKP
    Şükrü Ayalan AKP
    Dilek Yüksel AKP
    Orhan Düzgün CHP
    Reşat Doğru MHP
Turnout at last election88.42%
AKP
3 / 5
MHP
1 / 5
CHP
1 / 5

Members

Population reviews of each electoral district are conducted before each general election, which can lead to certain districts being granted a smaller or greater number of parliamentary seats. The number of seats allocated to Tokat fluctuated between six and seven seats in the last twenty years. It has now dropped to five seats, its lowest level yet.

MPs for Tokat, 1999 onwards
Seat 1999 (21st parliament) 2002 (22nd parliament) 2007 (23rd parliament) 2011 (24th parliament) June 2015 (25th parliament)
MP Mehmet Ergün Dağçıoğlu
FP		 Zeyid Aslan
AK Party		 Coşkun Çakır
AK Party
MP Bekir Sobacı
FP		 Şükrü Ayalan
AK Party		 Celil Göçer
AK Party
MP Lütfi Ceylan
MHP		 İbrahim Çamak
AK Party		 Dilek Yüksel
AK Party		 Fatma Gaye Güler
AK Party
MP Hasan Hüseyin Balak
MHP		 Orhan Ziya Diren
CHP		 Orhan Düzgün
CHP
MP Reşat Doğru
MHP		 Feramüz Şahin
CHP		 Reşat Doğru
MHP		 Abdurrahman Başkan
MHP
MP Ali Şevki Erek
DYP		 Mehmet Ergün Dağçıoğlu
AK Party		 Osman Demir
AK Party		 Seat abolished
MP No seat Resul Tosun
AK Party		 Hüseyin Gülsün
AK Party		 Seat abolished

General elections

2011
2011 Turkish general election: Tokat[1]
List Candidates Votes % ±
AKP Zeyid Aslan,Şükrü Ayalan,Dilek Yüksel 202,481 55.90
CHP Orhan Düzgün 85,149 23.51
MHP Reşat Doğru 57,257 15.81
Felicity None elected 6267 1.73
BBP None elected 3591 0.99
HAS Party None elected 2643 0.73 N/A
DP None elected 2107 0.58
DYP None elected 719 0.20
Labour None elected 564 0.16
Nation None elected 366 0.1
DSP None elected 358 0.1 [2]
TKP None elected 281 0.08
Nationalist Conservative None elected 264 0.07
Independents None elected 173 0.05
HEPAR None elected 0
Liberal Democrat None elected 418 0.11
Turnout 362,220 88.04

Presidential elections

2014
Presidential Election 2014: Tokat[3]
Party Candidate Votes %
AKP Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 206,899 62.29
Independent Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu 121,248 36.50
HDP Selahattin Demirtaş 4,018 1.21
Total votes 332,165 100.00
Rejected ballots 6,541 1.93
Turnout 338,706 81.14
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan win

References
  1. High Electoral Commission of Turkey
  2. DSP in 2011 is compared to CHP in 2007, under whose list it ran that year
  3. 2014 il bazında aday oyları Yüksek Seçim Kurulu (in Turkish)

40°25′N 36°35′E

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